Bad Omen: Nunavut

by Dean L. Hovey, John Wisdomkeeper

Overview

BWL Publishing Inc. with the support of the Government of Canada's Canada Book Fund, is proud to announce a series of historical mystery novels, with one novel set in each of the Canadian Provinces and Territories. These books will feature a historical mystery, with a factual setting and background, around which our authors have created a fictional mystery that represents the spirit of the people of Canada who have sought justice over the centuries.

Summoned from his comfortable Toronto college life, Christopher Pokaik returns to visit the grandfather who raised him.

Surprised by the evolving culture of the newly created Nunavut Territory, he's befriended by an Inuit RCMP Special Constable who helps him understand his Inuit roots. Despite her guidance, he finds himself chased by both earthly demons, and those in the northern lights. Will they lead him back to Toronto, to a new life in Iqaluit, or will they lead to his demise?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186040507
Publisher:	BWL Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2024
Series:	Canadian Historical Mysteries , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	870,122
File size:	624 KB

About the Author

Dean’s award-winning* Pine County series follows sheriff’s deputies Floyd Swenson and Pam Ryan through this police procedural series.

Dean’s Whistling Pines books are humorous cozy mysteries centered on the residents of the Whistling Pines senior residence. The protagonist is Peter Rogers, the Whistling Pines recreation director.

In Dean’s latest series his protagonist, a retired Minnesota policeman, is drafted into service as a National Park Service Investigator after a murder at a National Monument.

* “Family Trees: A Pine County Mystery” won the 2018 NEMBA award for best fiction.

John Wisdomkeeper
John has traveled the Red Road for over 30 years and during his journeys has met many fellow travelers who have shared their experiences which John has recorded in his book Along the Red Road. John is also author of The Wisdomkeeper Collection, as well as Suicide, Saving the Sundancers (free PDF download from this site) his collection of traditional recipes and herbal remedies can be found in Native Recipes from the Grandmothers. John is also co-author with his wife, Jude Pittman, of the novella Street Justice. John is a Métis person of uncertain historical ancestry as he was taken from his mother at birth and placed with a white family in Northern British Columbia. John has learned from his adoption records that his birth mother was Native and French (Métis) from the north country of British Columbia, descended from the Sekani Nation (which means 'mountain people'.) The Sekani are medicine healers and John has followed the Medicine Path throughout his lifetime. John is co-author of Fly Away Snow Goose (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)